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C.F. Deiser , pp. 71-7; and Power, op. cit., pp. 36-8. G.J. Aungier, Hist. of Syon , p. 385. A.H. Thompson, pp. 120-3. G.J. Aungier, op. cit., pp. 405-9. Translated from John de Grandisson's Register in G.G. Coulton, A Medieval Garner , pp. 312-14. Rule of St Benedict, c. 22. V.C.H. Lincs., II, p. 131. Translated in G.G. Coulton, A Medieval Garner. Myroure of Oure Ladye, ed.
For a very full study of the whole subject of English convent life at this period see Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 . F. Hingeston Randolph , p. 169. The passage about Philippa is translated in G.G. Coulton, Chaucer and His England , p. 181. See the account of expenses involved in making Elizabeth Sewardby a nun of Nunmonkton in Testamenta Eboracensia, ed.
The satisfying physical and economic condition which we describe by the name of comfort did not exist. The Italian historian Ferrero, in one of his essays, recommends those who have romantic yearnings after the good old times to spend one night on what our forefathers called a bed. Mr. Coulton, in his books on the Middle Ages, has used some very plain language on the same text.
'Tis Fancy's child, and Folly is its father; Wrought of such stuff as dreams are, and as baseless As the fantastic visions of the evening. Coulton. Like one of those rare and beautiful flowers found on the mountain-side in fellowship with plants of inferior beauty, the heir of the Cassier family is a strange exception of heroic virtue in the midst of a school of seduction.
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